MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia's Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill senior Russian officers and their families in Moscow.
The Ukrainian KGB killed Lt. General Kirillov, head of Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, on December 17 in Moscow outside his apartment building by detonating a bomb attached to an electric motorcycle.
A source in the Ukrainian security service confirmed to Reuters that the Ukrainian intelligence agency was behind the attack. Russia said the killing was a terrorist attack carried out by Kyiv and vowed revenge.
The Russian Federal Security Service said, “The Russian Federal Security Service thwarted a series of assassination attempts on high-ranking military officials in the Ministry of Defense.”
He added that four Russian citizens involved in preparing these attacks were arrested.
